As I write this post, it is 8:00 in the evening. John has been up since 4:00 a.m. and is still at the power plant. He’s waiting for his ride back to the hotel from a hard-working group of colleagues who evidently don’t know that it’s past dinner time. Ah, well. John has three more days at the plant. Hope they’re not all this long for him!

I spent the day washing clothes, swimming in the hotel’s salt-water pool, eating lunch beside the wave lagoon, shopping at one store for an Australian trinket, reading about Australian history, and watching a Telly interview with the new prime minister.

It’s been a restful day–at least for me.

P.S. He arrived at 9:20.